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This volume contains papers from the 1993 International Symposium of Linguistics, held in Tromso. The papers represent a wide interpretation of the term modality, including discourse modality, subjectivity, various types of speaker-orientation, and pragmatic aspects.Read more...

""Preface""; ""I think â€? an English modal particle""; ""Dimensions of epistemicity in English, German, and Norwegian conditionals""; ""The modal particle schon: Its syntax, semantics, and pragmatics""; ""Negation and modality in the Germanic languages""; ""Expressive sentence types â€? a contradiction in terms. The case of exclamation""; ""Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten""; ""On the use of brauchen versus mÃ?ssen""; ""Some central pragmatic functions of the Norwegian particles altsÃ¥ and nemlig""